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I actually thought this was a response to my comments in the trailer thread, lol. Having not read the book, I don't know where a good cut off would be. Having not suggest an alien at all? Alien contact revealed, but not much more? Some replies say there's still a lot more, so maybe this isn't ruined "enough"? If the trailer had only shown him without much of any plot revealed, would it attract enough viewers who knew nothing of the book?

It's a tough decision, and there will always be upset people. The goal is to get tickets, so whatever marketing research deems will work the best wins.

That's a hell of a reduction.

I don't mind previews in general, I think it's a good way to get settled in before the picture. I often see something that I would unlikely run across normally, and while I might not even ever watch it, I like being exposed to what's out there. Now, can previews be better, as in presenting the movie while not dragging on or revealing too much...absolutely. I'd love to have shorter, less spoiling advertisements, and more of them to get a feel of what's been made.

Now, ads in general, I'm not a fan of. That's probably because I'm not used to them since I don't watch general TV (which, I have no idea how people watch and don't go insane).

1 in 6000 chance for an American nickel, which has a thicker side than most. Just for others sake. I felt it was far less than just <1% and had to find out.

Having grown up along with the computer industry, sometimes I have that surreal sense of awe when I remember where we came from and what I used to consider cutting edge. Just upgraded my computer with a few SSDs, one an M.2, and before I put it in I was looking at it and trying to come to grasp with the scale of things (size and speed) vs. my first C-64 computer and Datasette. I know the numbers...they don't convey the difference in the head.

Clearly not, since we're still at this point. I was hypothesizing an improvement.

Individual creatures do have their own traits that make them differ from the rest. They aren't robots following the exact same instruction for every stimulus. That being said, personality implies a sense of agency or self-awareness, and I don't think they have that. Humans have a built in desire to anthropomorphize anything that begins to resemble something human-like, it's in our brain.

If I was a rat I'd be in favor of this as well. Gives you a fighting chance to stay alive, and the death is far better overall than some of the poisons out there that are horrific in what they do to the rat, slowly.

Sure. After removing yourself from the conditions. My guess is that either this meme's suggestion is exactly what's happening, or rather she is barely aware of things and the paramedic is asking if she can find a number on her phone for them to call a loved one. Had to do that at work once with someone who had a seizure and couldn't stay conscious long enough to call themselves.

As bad as the smartphone is for other reasons, it's wonderful for being there as a contact tool when you need it.

An excuse I've heard is that it is society's way of passing the final judgement to God. Hence the "may God have mercy on your soul" line. Not only does that assume the existence of said judgement and entity to do it, by said deity's clock that judgement doesn't have to be so rushed, it can wait until a natural death. The reason reason is to satisfy the desire of revenge, but even that doesn't work, as killing the killer doesn't bring back anyone.

Death penalty in a modern society is insane. Addressing the problems that lead to such behaviors is the long term fix, not killing who does it.

That money goes straight back to Treasury.

There it is. "Why are they doing this?" Right there.

Even better, going off my view of the marketing AI Everything as an annoying popup, we need AI to fight AI, counter the attempt to ask the user if they'd like to try Copilot by yeeting it off the screen. Everyone likes robot fights.